Extraordinary Popular Delusions & the Madness of Crowds

ISBN: 9780517884331

³ö°æÉç: Three Rivers Press

³ö°æÄê: 1995-07-25

Ò³Êý: 768

¶¨¼Û: USD 15.95

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A complete repackaging of the classic work about grand-scale madness, major schemes, and bamboozlement--and the universal human susceptibility to all three. This informative, funny collection encompasses a broad range of manias and deceptions, from witch burnings to the Great Crusades to the prophecies of Nostradamus.

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Charles Mackay, L.L.D., was a Scottish journalist in the nineteenth century. He received an honorary law degree from Glasgow University and was a renowned poet and songwriter.

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